Mouth is the “front door”: it can reveal both local oral disease and systemic disease.
1. What is the main role of oral pathology in dentistry?
2. Which set of tissues best reflects the breadth of oral histology relevant to oral pathology?
Oral pathology — role?
Diagnoses oral and maxillofacial diseases.
Oral lesions — histology basis?
Comprised of epithelium, connective tissue, and other tissues.
Classification — challenge?
Overlap of lesion types complicates grouping.
Lesion types — categories?
Inflammatory, reactive, dysplasia, tumors.
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